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Large language models (LLMs) exhibit diverse response behaviors, costs, and strengths, making it challenging to select the most suitable LLM for a given user query. We study the problem of adaptive multi-LLM selection in an online setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Manhin Poon , XiangXiang Dai , Xutong Liu , Fang Kong , John C. S. Lui , Jinhang Zuo

We consider an online resource allocation problem where multiple resources, each with an individual initial capacity, are available to serve random requests arriving sequentially over multiple discrete time periods. At each time period, one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Jiashuo Jiang , Jiawei Zhang

We consider streaming over a peer-to-peer network with homogeneous nodes in which a single source broadcasts a data stream to all the users in the system. Peers are allowed to enter or leave the system (adversarially) arbitrarily. Previous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan , Pramod Viswanath

We observe that LLM cascading and routing implicitly solves an anytime computation problem -- a class of algorithms, well-studied in classical AI, that improve solutions as additional computation is allocated. We formalize this connection…

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We initiate the study of numerical linear algebra in the sliding window model, where only the most recent $W$ updates in a stream form the underlying data set. We first introduce a unified row-sampling based framework that gives randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Vladimir Braverman , Petros Drineas , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Jalaj Upadhyay , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

In this study, we delve into the Thresholding Linear Bandit (TLB) problem, a nuanced domain within stochastic Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) problems, focusing on maximizing decision accuracy against a linearly defined threshold under resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yun-Ang Wu , Yun-Da Tsai , Shou-De Lin

In this work we explore multi-arm bandit streaming model, especially in cases where the model faces resource bottleneck. We build over existing algorithms conditioned by limited arm memory at any instance of time. Specifically, we improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Santanu Rathod

Algorithm selection is typically based on models of algorithm performance, learned during a separate offline training sequence, which can be prohibitively expensive. In recent work, we adopted an online approach, in which a performance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Matteo Gagliolo , Juergen Schmidhuber

This paper studies online optimization under inventory (budget) constraints. While online optimization is a well-studied topic, versions with inventory constraints have proven difficult. We consider a formulation of inventory-constrained…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Qiulin Lin , Hanling Yi , John Pang , Minghua Chen , Adam Wierman , Michael Honig , Yuanzhang Xiao

Recommendation systems when employed in markets play a dual role: they assist users in selecting their most desired items from a large pool and they help in allocating a limited number of items to the users who desire them the most. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Yigit Efe Erginbas , Soham Phade , Kannan Ramchandran

We study an online learning problem on dynamic pricing and resource allocation, where we make joint pricing and inventory decisions to maximize the overall net profit. We consider the stochastic dependence of demands on the price, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jianyu Xu , Xuan Wang , Yu-Xiang Wang , Jiashuo Jiang

We study the problem of selecting large language models (LLMs) for user queries in settings where multiple LLM providers submit the cost of solving a query. From the users' perspective, choosing an optimal model is a sequential,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Pronoy Patra , Sankarshan Damle , Manisha Padala , Sujit Gujar

The problem of Offline Policy Evaluation (OPE) in Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a critical step towards applying RL in real-life applications. Existing work on OPE mostly focus on evaluating a fixed target policy $\pi$, which does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Ming Yin , Yu Bai , Yu-Xiang Wang

In this work, we argue for the importance of an online evaluation budget for a reliable comparison of deep offline RL algorithms. First, we delineate that the online evaluation budget is problem-dependent, where some problems allow for less…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Vladislav Kurenkov , Sergey Kolesnikov

Which ads should we display in sponsored search in order to maximize our revenue? How should we dynamically rank information sources to maximize the value of the ranking? These applications exhibit strong diminishing returns: Redundancy…

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We propose stochastic rank-$1$ bandits, a class of online learning problems where at each step a learning agent chooses a pair of row and column arms, and receives the product of their values as a reward. The main challenge of the problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Sumeet Katariya , Branislav Kveton , Csaba Szepesvari , Claire Vernade , Zheng Wen

Logistic Bandits have recently undergone careful scrutiny by virtue of their combined theoretical and practical relevance. This research effort delivered statistically efficient algorithms, improving the regret of previous strategies by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Louis Faury , Marc Abeille , Kwang-Sung Jun , Clément Calauzènes

Fast and efficient path generation is critical for robots operating in complex environments. This motion planning problem is often performed in a robot's actuation or configuration space, where popular pathfinding methods such as A*, RRT*,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Mayur J. Bency , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Michael C. Yip

Most deployed WAN Traffic Engineering (TE) systems use a logically centralized controller that periodically gathers traffic demands, runs a TE optimization or heuristic, and then programs the network. At scale, these solutions can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Arvin Ghavidel , Pooria Namyar , Nikolai Matni , Walter Willinger , Ramesh Govindan

Modern LLM deployments confront a widening cost-performance spectrum: premium models deliver strong reasoning but are expensive, while lightweight models are economical yet brittle on complex tasks. Static escalation rules and keyword…